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what means Elements in NPM?

fu2000

hi all,

please i need to know what means Element,,, for Example:

(((((If you plan to monitor 8000 or more elements )))

is it mean number of switches and routers ; number of devices as a Node?

please help as possible,

thanks

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borgan

An element is either a node, interface or volume. So, a switch with 48 ports, a CPU and RAM would be counted as 51 elements if all of those elements are monitored.

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njoylif

I've always thought it meant the number of pollers you have per minute. i.e. 10 nodes with 9 interfaces each (100 poll objects) each being polled one time a min => 100 elements

I could be wrong...SW?

borgan

An element is either a node, interface or volume. So, a switch with 48 ports, a CPU and RAM would be counted as 51 elements if all of those elements are monitored.

byrona

Borgan is correct; however when you are figuring capacity I was told that you also need to take your UnDP's into account as well. I was told to use the right-hand number of the Statistic Polling Index on the Polling Engine page when figuring maximum capacity for a polling engine.

borgan

Agreed, byrona. If, for example, one has 6000 elements, the number of pollers will actually be higher (perhaps significantly so) and is a better indicator of the actual workload on the CPU.

fu2000

thanks for all,,